MANCHESTER United great Nicky Butt claims he has been banned from his local tip after a row with staff.
Butt, 51, was “raging” when his Range Rover was deemed to be a commercial vehicle as the seats were down.
But the former midfielder went ahead and dumped his “smelly bags” at the centre near his home in Cheshire, chased by an attendant with a walkie-talkie.
He said: “There’s this guy at the gate bit, and he flags me down and goes, ‘Put your windows down I need to look in the back of your car’. I’m going, ‘What for?’.”
The Class of 92 hero continued: “I’ve got a lot of crap from the house, bit of cardboard . . . I missed the bin man last week, so I’ve got a few smelly bags. So I put the windows down, obviously my seats were down and apparently I’m not going in because it’s a commercial van. So I’m raging, literally.
“I’m putting a bit of cardboard in the tip.”
Butt then claimed the attendant accused him of trying to sneak in items.
The dad of two told The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast: “He said to me, ‘Your windows are blacked out because you’re sneaking stuff into it, into the tip’. And I went, ‘No, it’s standard, mate’.”
He then decided to drive into the site, believed to be the Woodhouse Lane Recycling Centre in Altrincham.
He said: “I thought, well, I’m there now, I’m gonna go for it. So I’ve got up the ramp, I see this bloke getting up . . . trying to chase me up the hill, but he’s got his walkie-talkie out.
“So I’ve literally got up the top, throw all the bags out, and I’m going back down the hill, and he’s going mad at me. Anyway, I’m banned from the tip.”
Butt won six Premier League titles, three FA Cups and the Champions League with United before moving to Newcastle in 2004.
He then finished playing in China, and was CEO of League Two side Salford until quitting in 2024.
The Sun contacted him for comment.